A/N: (Excuses Alert!) Just been to see the three queens in Liverpool , What A Beauty.
As the duo walked home from school they were in deep thought about the events that had taken place. Hermione's train of thought was,"I hope Harry can trust me. I love him! He stood up for me when that bully of a boy called me a book worm." while Harry was thinking along the lines of "I can't believe that boy reduced Hermione to tears it was so mean."
"Harry he didn't reduce me to tears" replying from his thought.
"But look you've still got tears in your eyes now" Harry said, slightly confused
"I do but these are tears of happiness."
"Say that again."
"You stood up for me for the first time and I'm really greatfull."
"I love you Hermione"
"And I love you to Harry."
As they entered the threshold of the house she gave him a quick peck on the cheek, Before walking to the living room where they were greeted by a tall woman with a white hood sitting on the armchair opposite her parents.
"Hello" was all they said not knowing her name, while moving into the armchair that they had dubbed "harmony"
"My name is madam Promfay I am the matron at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and am here to check upon your soul bond, since Minervas visit how has it been Harry?"
"Different". He answered not being able to think of a way to describe it.
"Well I um... I make people happy here." clearly giving off hints off discomfort.
"And for you Hermione how has it been?"
"Wonderful, I have a friend who loves me and I can hear his every thought, I get to hold his hand constantly and I love him. The only bad thing was this morning when I couldn't feel Harry in my head and I felt empty but it fixed itself when I kissed him."
"Hmmm" the matron said slightly worried, pulling out her wand before asking politely, "am I allowed to perform a scan on you both?"
"Yes of course." Hermione answered.
The matron waved her wand and before long a piece of parchment appeared mid air, which Promfay took hold of and read before saying, "Interesting. Hermione when you couldn't feel Harry ' in your head' what had happened?"
"Well he stood up losing contact with me but no pain came however I felt empty and I couldn't focus on anything but Harry."
"It seems Harry broke the bond and then when the bond reformed it became even stronger have you noticed anything else?"
"Well I um..." Hermione started blushing quite deeply "crave him a bit more" to which her father gave a raised eyebrow which made her say, "No daddy not in that way, we are much too young."
"Well that's all from me for now goodbye, I hope to see you soon I will be doing checkups on you two in the future." and with that she was gone with a small pop.
"How are you two not confused by any of this?" Emma said much to the delight of her husband
"Well it's quite logical really..." Hermione started giving quite the lecture before letting Harry say "I just listened to Hermione's mind during the whole thing, ow Hermione that lecture you gave is giving my head a migraine."
"Sorry Harry."
"So what are you two going to do tonight? Since it's the end of school on Friday I don't think we're going to have a barbecue just yet but the pool is on if you want?"
"I say pool." Hermione said knowing Harry would be uncomfortable but she wanted to get away to talk to Harry in private and knew this was her best option.
"Um ok Hermione" he said trying to hide the discomfort of his back
As they trotted up the stairs Dan asked Emma "Harry is hiding something from us and I think Hermione knows it as well."
"Why would you think that?"
"Noticed how every time he has to take most of the clothes on his top half of he gets very uncomfortable."
"Well he could just be self conscious."
"I don't know." Dan finished
"Ok Harry, talk I know about you're back but I don't know how why when where or who."
Harry was right in the middle of his uncomfortable zone now and said "I fell" trying to take the easy path out
"No you didn't, seriously Harry."
Talking slowly and nervously, "Well my relatives didn't like me, so if I got anything wrong I was punished like every freak should be."
"You are not a freak I thought I had that in your head but how were you punished?"
Suddenly Hermiones mind was filled with mind scarring images that never stopped, it was cruel and seeing it happen to the person she loved nearly pushed her over the edge, she grabbed onto Harry gripping into his skin crying into his hair. When it stopped she asked, "How often?"
"Every day" he replied making her cry and grip even harder it would now be easier to cut diamond with a tooth pick than separate her from him.
After five minutes Harry was starting to get worried she still hadn't stopped crying and she was in turmoil and her mind was shutdown and waves upon waves of sadness rushed to Harry. Hermione's mind was trying to regain some control when she realised what Harry would be thinking and immediately snapped out of it. Remembering what they were supposed to be doing said, "Thank you Harry for telling me this. Now let's go and play in the pool."
After getting changed into their swim clothes they headed downstairs to the pool in a quite spacious garden.